• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    Trans women should be allowed to participate. The thing is that her results are reflective of most trans women, they perform on par with cisgender feminine athletes. This entire “trans women in sports” debate is just transphobia masquerading as fairness. It essentially boils down to “trans women can only participate if they lose”.

    • Liz@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      I’d be fine with banning trans participants from professional-level compensation if we also banned anyone who ever took a PED ever. It’s the same argument. If trans people get lifetime bans, then so should PED users. Of course the second will never happen, so…